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10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now No. 1 on the iOS charts


Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore

“For a brief, glorious, few months, you had experienced what it was like to make an app that was used by millions – despite it being one that by all accounts ‘shouldn’t exist,’” Testut explained in a recent blog post, reflecting on his experience over the last decade. Soon after, he happened to attend a Super Smash Bros. players meetup, where he crossed paths with Shane Gill, an engineering student who has now been his roommate for nine years, and his business partner for five. And according to Testut, it’s a bit too convenient that just as AltStore launched on iOS in the EU, Apple made a small carve out in its rules to allow Delta to exist.

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